Is Getting a Cover Up Tattoo A Good Idea?

If you' have an ugly tattoo that you aren't happy with, maybe you've considered getting a cover up tattoo.  Maybe you don't have the slightest idea what it is that I'm talking about?

Basically this is just a fancy way to say that you're going to have a tattoo artist try to "fix" the mistake that someone else already made.

In some cases, a good tattoo artist can make an ugly tattoo look a little better but many of the times, it's pretty apparent that you tried to get a past mistake fixed.

You might think of getting a cover up tattoo like putting makeup on a pig.  No matter how much makeup you apply, a pig is still a pig.

If you do decide to get a cover up tattoo, make sure that you go to a qualified and licensed tattoo artist and one that has lots of experience giving cover up tats.

It requires much more skill to alter an existing and ugly tattoo to look like there never was a mistake than it does to apply a nice looking tattoo in the first place.

What I'm getting at is that just because you walk into a shop instead of your buddy's garage, there's no guarantee that you'll be any more happy with the tattoo that you walk out with.